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New York based violinist Masha Polishchuk has recently performed with the American Ballet Theater, American Symphony Orchestra, with TONY-nominated stars such as Tony Yazbeck and Steven Skybell, and on stages such as Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, The Barns at Wolf Trap, and National Sawdust. Internationally, she has appeared in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia, and Switzerland. A champion of new music, she has recently recorded and performed works by Cristobal MarYan, Max Richter, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and regularly performs classical chamber music and Klezmer in New York in the MusicTalks concert series.

Kate Goddard is a New York-based multi-instrumentalist. She co-founded Xanthoria Quartet, is a violist in New York Classical Quartet, and plays period violin in Cramer Quartet. Her recent chamber music performances include venues such as The Morgan Library, Composers Now Festival at National Sawdust, and the University of Michigan’s Stearns Collection. She has also played with American Classical Orchestra, Providence Baroque Orchestra, Early Music New York, and Yale Schola Cantorum, and with artists such as Sigur Rós, Billy Martin, Evanescence, Ellie Goulding, Michael Bublé, Andrea Boccelli, Michael Bolton, and Roger Daltrey.

Nickolas Kaynor is the principal violist of the Battle Creek Symphony, section violist of the Binghamton Philharmonic, and regularly performs with ensembles such as the New Bedford Symphony, the Cape Symphony, the Plymouth Philharmonic, the Portland Symphony, and the New Haven Symphony. As a soloist, he has performed the Bartók Viola Concerto with the Chapman Orchestra and his project Chapman Duo was a winner of the Wildflower International Recording Competition, the Frances Walton Competition, and were semi-finalists for the American Prize in Chamber Music Performance.

Valeriya Sholokhova is a Ukrainian-born accomplished solo cellist and chamber musician based in New York City. Last season, she performed at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center Stage, and on Saturday Night Live. A graduate of the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, she has served as the principal cellist for Spoleto Festival USA, Orchestra of the Americas, Music Academy of the West, The New Orchestra of Washington, The Refugee Orchestra Project. As a soloist, she has appeared in the Liezen International Competition, the Antonio Janigro Competition, and premiered Peteris Vasks' Cello Concerto No. 2. She is a founding member of Trio Fadolin, which has received Chamber Music America's Ensemble Forward Grant.